An allele is said to be recessive, when it is expressed in

Heterozygous condition only

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Homozygous condition only

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Both homozygous and heterozygous conditions.

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Solution

The correct option is B Homozygous condition only
An allele is said to be recessive only when it is expressed in Homozygous condition because when any dominant allele is present the phenotype will be dominant.
Therefore, the option (B) is correct.

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Dominant character appears both in homozygous and heterozygous condition, whereas recessive character appears only in homozygous condition.

\begin{matrix} Column I & Column II A & Dominant allele & 1 & It gets expressed only in homozygous condition B & Recessive allele & 2 & Both the alleles of the gene are different C & Homozygous & 3 & Both the alleles of the gene are same D & Heterozygous & 4 & It gets expressed in both homozygous and heterozygous conditions \end{matrix}

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